Telling it like it was

Siblings Sheila McLeod and Ray Burdett share a family portrait with Clarkston Junior High School students. The negative for the portrait was found after the photography shop was bombed. Photo by Wendi Reardon (click for larger version)

March 09, 2011 - Sheila McLeod of Clarkston was 3-years-old when England entered World War II on September 3, 1939.

She shared her stories from her youth on Feb. 24 along with her brother, Ray Burdett of Haslett, who was 9-years-old at the time their lives changed.

They were two of the special visitors invited by Clarkston Junior High School for their seventh annual USO day.

Some speakers spoke about fighting in the war while McLeod and Burdett discussed what it was like to be a child on the home front, living 20 miles from London.